Le vrai bonheur

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Untitled (Le vrai bonheur), 2017
HD Video, 20 min, 43 sec.


how can we discipline ourselves according to certain standards if we never think about them?

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Sometimes, in a happy state of intoxication, I imagine giving in to disorder: leaving the pots dirty, the laundry to be washed, the beds unmade.

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What’s important is I discovered that working isn’t difficult. I really enjoy it.

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I told her that happiness, at least as she imagines it, doesn’t exist

Forbidden Notebook: A Novel, Alba de Céspedes, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein.

Joséphine Baker, C’est ça le vrai bonheur (1955). Discogs.

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